"Spies are not protected by the international human rights convention, " the statement concludes.
This is as statement of fact based on the European Human Rights Convention.
The Council of Europe upholds the Human Rights Convention, which requires member states to "hold free elections ... which will ensure the free expression of the opinion of the people in the choice of the legislature".
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He said Mr Nicklinson was seeking a court declaration based on his right to respect for private life under Article 8 of the Human Rights Convention - in effect saying that in his circumstances, his right to life included the right to end his life in a humane manner of his choosing.
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Leading Conservative eurosceptic Bill Cash called on the government to "withdraw from the European Convention" on Human Rights and "repeal the Human Rights Act" which enshrines the Convention in UK law.
But on Tuesday the court decided unanimously that extradition - possibly to the ADX 'supermax' prison in Florence, Colorado - would breach Mr Aswat's human rights, specifically Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights which prohibits inhuman or degrading treatment.
Later he told a fringe meeting that the case "certainly has nothing to do with the Human Rights Act and nothing to do with the European Convention on Human Rights".
It is being brought under the 1998 Human Rights Act, which incorporates into UK law the European Convention on Human Rights.
Should legal obstacles arise, we will legislate further including, if necessary, amending the Human Rights Act in respect of the interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights.
He said the public inquiry's chair, retired High Court judge Sir Christopher Holland, had failed to consider the officers' rights under the European Convention on Human Rights when he ruled at a preliminary hearing last month that they had to give evidence in public.
He asked whether the girl did not have a legal case to raise against the Scottish Executive because her rights under the European Convention on Human Rights had been undermined by the executive's decision not to pay her fees when the course of her choice was not available in Scotland.
The Human Rights Act, which will allow people in the United Kingdom to enforce the European Convention on Human Rights in their own courts.
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The Conservatives have been strongly critical of the Human Rights Act - legislation which introduced into British law the principles of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights - of which Britain was one of the authors.
For a government which introduced Britain's first bill of rights by incorporating the European Convention on Human Rights into British law, this is not only disappointing, but alarming.
The women assert that the actions of the undercover officers breached their rights as protected by the European Convention on Human Rights, including Article 3 (no one shall be subject to inhumane and degrading treatment) and Article 8 (respect for private and family life, including the right to form relationships without unjustified interference by the state).
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How about the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights then, or the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights, all of which address detention issues?
They argued that it breached her personal autonomy rights under the Irish constitution and the European convention on human rights.
It was announced in May that the coalition would establish a commission to look at creating British Bill of Rights, incorporating and building on obligations under European Convention on Human Rights.
The Conservatives wanted to replace it with a British Bill of Rights but have stressed this would not mean withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights.
The coalition deal says the commission will look into a British Bill of Rights "that incorporates and builds on all our obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, ensures that these rights continue to be enshrined in British law, and protects and extends British liberties".
But the coalition agreement instead promised to establish a commission to investigate the case for a bill of rights that "incorporates and builds on all our obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, ensures that these rights continue to be enshrined in British law, and protects and extends British liberties".
The Open Government Declaration endorsed the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Convention against corruption.
The Human Rights Act incorporates the convention into British law.
In this respect it stresses the importance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, its 1967 Protocol and regional instruments.
Like the UK, the Irish Republic is signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights.
That judicial opposition to torture evidence didn't just spring from the European Convention of Human Rights.
That could prove highly problematic, since the European Convention on Human Rights bans seizure without due process.
It meets the government's manifesto commitment to incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law.
He claimed that his detention violated his right to liberty under the European Convention on Human Rights.
France bans the garment altogether from state schools, citing Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
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